Neptune AC3 Programming

[Reef55]

What about putting If Time > 00:00 Then HET OFF instead ? And then follow it with
If Temp < 78.0 Then HET ON
If Temp > 78.5 Then HET OFF

This way I don't think the heater would stay off forever since it is follow by another conditions.

Couple of points..

1) All commands in the Aquacontroller are evaulated top down. At the end of your code, whatever state the device is in, that is what command will be sent (meaning, on or off).

2) The only thing the if Time > is doing for you above is to keep the state from ever being Unknown, which would only happen if the temp was between 78.0 and 78.5 and had never been above or below those values.

 

[joefitz]

Yes, I will have to do that soon. I haven't look into doing that yet. I'm too lazy to read the manual.



Wouldn't your failsafe, If Temp < 60.0 Then HET1 OFF, work against this line,If Temp < 78.0 Then HET ON, in the code? The failsafe line would never work since heater will turn on if temp is less then 78 no mater what.

As someone else just referenced...the commands are processed in a top down fashion so the last 'successful' command is the one that generates the actual event to trigger the device on or off. Or at least that is my understanding.

So, if the failsafe code is at the bottom, it will work as expected. The real question is, do you really know what you'd want to do in the case that your temp probe failed. I suppose it probably would be safe to turn most/all of your heaters off, especially in the summer months (I remove my heaters in the summer anyway)...but if it were the Winter, I don't think I'd want that same failsafe, you know? Basically, I'm not sure the failsafe idea is a very good one whether it works or not...

How do you turn on the audible alarm?
M.

There is an x10 device that emits an audible alarm...it also has a visible alarm as well (red light). It believe it also has terminals that can be used to trigger another device although I've never looked into that aspect of it. You just set it like any other x10 device and then have the Aquacontroller ping it when something goes too far out of whack.

 

[pvh]

As someone else just referenced...the commands are processed in a top down fashion so the last 'successful' command is the one that generates the actual event to trigger the device on or off. Or at least that is my understanding.

So, if the failsafe code is at the bottom, it will work as expected. The real question is, do you really know what you'd want to do in the case that your temp probe failed. I suppose it probably would be safe to turn most/all of your heaters off, especially in the summer months (I remove my heaters in the summer anyway)...but if it were the Winter, I don't think I'd want that same failsafe, you know? Basically, I'm not sure the failsafe idea is a very good one whether it works or not...



There is an x10 device that emits an audible alarm...it also has a visible alarm as well (red light). It believe it also has terminals that can be used to trigger another device although I've never looked into that aspect of it. You just set it like any other x10 device and then have the Aquacontroller ping it when something goes too far out of whack.

I will test out the failsafe by just taking the probe out of the tank to see what it will do. And it is safer to take the heaters out of the tank during the summer.


Now I'm having problem connecting to my controller from work? Anyone locally who can help me setup my port forwarding on my router? I tried what the instruction said but I still can't log on to the AC3 from work.

 

[joefitz]

What kind of router do you have and how do you think you have set up the port forwarding?

Also, who is your Internet service provider? Some companies disable the web port (port 80). But you can easily work around it by using a non-standard port and having the router forward that port to port 80 on the Aquacontroller...